Depraved and Insulting English and Love and Death in Kathmandu

What's New at Arty Bees Books.
This is the spot to check out every week, as we bring you the latest on the fabulous, weird, interesting, intriguing, and wonderful books, big or small, mostly square-ish - although not always - that have come into Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.

What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

Fiction

• Ada by Vladimir Nabokov (in nice hardback)
• The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20 th Century edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H Greenberg
• The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20 th Century edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H Greenberg
• The Summer Book – a Novel and A Winter Book – Selected Stories both by Tove Jansson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• Killing Rommel – North Africa 1942 – An Elite British Army Unit is on a Deadly Mission by Steven Pressfield

Comics

• Thunderbolts - Justice, Like Lightning- Faith in Monsters by Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato Jr
• Transmetropolitan – Back on the Street by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
• Crossover Classics – The Marvel DC Collection Vol. 3
• The Incredible Hulk – Marvel Visionaries by Peter David

New Zealand

• Seen this Century – 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists – A Collector’s Guide by Warwick Guide
• What Bird Did That? The Comprehensive Field Guide to the Ornithological Dejecta of Great Britain and Europe by Peter Hansard and Burton SIlver
• South Sea Vagabonds – A New Zealand Classic Adventure of the Sea by John Wray [PB]
• Hell-Hole of the Pacific – Kororareka – The Town that Harboured `a Greater Number of Rogues than Any Other Spot of Equal Size in the Universe’ by Richard Wolfe
• Buildings of Dunedin – Illustrated Architectural Guide to New Zealand’s Victorian City by Knight and Wales
• Southern Gardening – A History of the Dunedin Horticultural Society by Louise Shaw
• A History of Port Lyttelton by W. H. Scotter
• Celebrating Wellington Girls – 125 Years of Wellington Girls’ College by Margot Schwass
• Eagle’s Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand [1 st and 2 nd Series] by Audrey Eagle
• Nelson College for Girls – Fifty Years 1883-1933
• German Raiders of the South Seas – The Naval Threat to Australia / New Zealand 1914-1917 by Robin Bromby
• Matariki – The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
• New Zealand Geographic by Kennedy Warne

History, Politics and Biography

• The African Experience – History of Civilization by Roland Oliver
• The Romanov Family Album with research and descriptions by Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey
• Down the Plughole – An Irreverent History of the Bath by Steve Dobell
• The Power of News – The History of Reuters by Donald Read
• Salt – A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• Sacred Causes – Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
• Eyewitness to Discovery – First-person Accounts of more than 50 of the World’s Greatest Archaeological Discoveries edited by Brian M. Fagan
• The Gay Metropolis 1940 – 1996 – New York City by Charles Kaiser
• Compañero – The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge Castañeda
• Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
• Persia – Bridge of Turquoise by Roloff Beny with Essay by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Ja, No Man – A Memoir of Pop Culture, Girls, Suburbia and Apartheid by Richard Poplak
• Escobar – The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar by Roberto Escobar
• The Phoenix - The Men who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis
• Love and Death in Kathmandu – A Strange Tale of Royal Murder by Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker

Poetry, Classics, Essays and Literati

• Jane Austen– An Excellent Biography by Carol Shields
• 1001 Limericks - For Adults Only by Book Blocks
• Rumi – The Book of Love – Poems of Ecstasy and Longing translated by Coleman Barks
• Rumi – Gardens of the Beloved translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin
• Depraved and Insulting English – Words to Offend and Amuse by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
• Siegfried Sassoon – A Biography by Max Egremont
• Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda – a Bilingual Edition
• More Tea, Vicar? An Embarrassment of Domestic Catchphrases by Nigel Rees
• The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés – Meanings and Origins of More than 3500 Terms and Expressions by Christine Ammer
• I was Told There’d be Cake – Essays by Sloane Crosley

Art and Architecture

• Edvard Munch – Death and Desire
• Matisse the Master – A Life of Henri Matisse – The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
• The Ultimate Illustrations by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell
• Neutra by Barbara Lamprecht [new from the Taschen architecture range]
• Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya
• Found – Funny! Tragic! Random! - Notes picked up from the Street by Davy Rothbart
• Post Secret – Confessions on Life, Death and God by Frank Warren
• Masterpieces of World Ceramics edited by Reino Liefkes and Hilary Young
• Mies van der Rohe by Claire Zimmerman [new from the Taschen architecture range]
• Hundertwasser Architecture – For a more Human Architecture in Harmony with Nature

Travel, Places and Exploration

• The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
• Younghusband – The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French
• Mexican Mosaic – Folklore and Tradition by Rodney Gallop
• Orient Express by Graham Greene
• Cartographica Extraordinaire – The Historical Map Transformed by David Rumsey and Edith M Punt
• The Geography of Bliss – The Grumpiest Man on the Planet goes in Search of the Happiest Place in the World by Eric Weiner
• 722 Miles – The Building of the Subways and how they Transformed New York by Clifton Hood
• Even a Daughter is Better than Nothing – A Year in Ulaanbaatar by Mykel Board

Music and Film

• The Dave Grohl Story – Nirvana Foo Fighters by Jeff Apter
• Exile on Main St. – A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield
• The Sundance Kids – How the Mavericks took back Hollywood by James Mottram
• Miles – The Autobiography by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments - from all Eras and Regions of the World by Könemann
• The Eagles – Flying High by Laura Jackson
• Rotten – No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs – Punk has been Romanticized by John Lydon

Military and True Crime

• The SS – Third Reich Series by Time Life Books
• Last Witnesses in the Bunker by Pierre Galante and Eugene Silianoff
• Convoy – Merchant Sailors at War 1939-1945 by Philip Kaplan and Jack Currie
• Nazi Regalia by E.W.W. Fowler
• Couldn’t Keep it to Myself – Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institute - Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
• Vietnam – The Definitive Oral History, told from all Sides by Christian G. Appy
• Voices from the Trenches – Letters to Home by Noel Carthew
• The Hitler Book – The Secret Report by his two Closest Aides – The Secret Dossier prepared for Stalin
• Hotel Kerobokan – The Shocking inside Story of Bali’s most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
• Luck of the Devil – The Story of Operation Valkyrie by Ian Kershaw
• The German Navy in World War II by Robert Jackson

Transport…. Continuing with the delicious deluge from last week ...

• In the Rail Portfolios Series:
  • The 37s,
  • The Peaks,
  • The 40s
  • and The 50s
• The Royal Yacht Britannia – Life on Board the Floating Palace by Andrew Morton
• In the British Railways Illustrated Series:
  • Annuals 1, 4 and 7,
  • and Summer Specials 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8
• Titanic and her Sisters Olympic and Britannic by Tom McCluskie, Michael Sharpe and Leo Marriott
• Western Steam in Colour by Hugh Ballantyne

Science, Natural History and Technology

• Seeing Further – The Story of Science and the Royal Society edited by Bill Bryson
• The Botany of Desire – A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• The Seven Daughters of Eve – The Astonishing Story that Reveals how each of us can Trace our Genetic Ancestors by Bryan Sykes
• The Web of Life – A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter by Fritjof Capra
• The Forgotten Crafts – A Practical Guide to Traditional Skills by John Seymour

... And the Technology and Economy

• Illicit – How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moisés Naìm
• Machine Nature – The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing by Moshe Sipper
• i-Phone for Dummies by Edward C Baig and Bob `Dr. Mac’ LeVitus
• Philosophy, New Age and Inspiration
• A New Earth – Awakening to your Life’s Purpose and Practising the Power of Now both by Eckhardt Tolle
• Love in a Lunch Box – Tales of a Modern Mum by Susannah Mac
• Blink – The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Foucault – Fontana Modern Masters by J. G. Merquior
• Michel Foucault – The Order of Things – An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
• Ethics – The Essential Works 1 by Michel Foucault
• The Foucault Reader – An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought edited by Paul Rabinow
• Discipline and Punish – The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

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